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[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 11: There was this Jap pain in the ass who was acing everyone out of the game.
at ace out (v.) under ace, v.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 58: There’s that seal [...] leaping out of the water mad as a hornet, and the seal is shaking its fist, yelling, you fuckin’ USARPS.
at ...a hornet under mad as..., adj.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 197: The best thing we did, though, was get out there with nothin’ on [...] and you’d stand there, wavin’ bottles of booze, and they’d just about shit, think we’d all gone Asiatic.
at asiatic, adj.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 53: Like I’ve always had a tough time bending when someone gets on my ass.
at get (on) someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 193: Even the officers got out there and busted ass.
at bust ass under ass, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 75: It’s a real ball-crusher.
at ball-crusher (n.) under balls, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 33: The temperature where he lives is always around 80 degrees and it’s rainy as a bastard.
at as a bastard (adv.) under bastard, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 27: He wasn’t doing it for old John Bull.
at John Bull, n.1
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 192: We canned him for three days.
at can, v.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 201: We had a bunch of women here this past year, Holy Christ.
at Christ!, excl.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 178: You know, that psychiatric screening we give, it’s not worth diddly-doo.
at not worth diddly-shit (adj.) under diddly-shit, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 81: Got some Playboy rejects, didn’t make the centrefold [...] they’re such dogs, almost guys.
at dog, n.2
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 24: Someone in front of me mutters, ‘Pencil, you dud’.
at dud, n.2
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 201: If you make a eyeball at ’em [...] Christ, you’ll get your ass up to mast.
at eyeball, n.2
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 201: You really have to fly with your ass, says Garcia.
at fly by the seat of one’s pants (v.) under fly, v.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 196: The admiral, he’s a good shit, no one like him that I know.
at good shit, n.2
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 53: That helo pilot who parked his bird on the top of Erebus and took a piss into the crater.
at helo, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 111: The menu is cold cuts – the Navy calls it horse cock.
at horsecock, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 202: That’s when you’re over the hump, Hump Night they called it, halfway home.
at over the hump under hump, n.1
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 76: It packs hard as a mammy-jammin’ cement load.
at mammy-jamming (adj.) under mammy-jammer, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 199: We went around cuttin’ all these jock shots out of muscle mags.
at jock, adj.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 199: He’s laughin’ his ass off, gettin’ a lot of chuckles.
at laugh one’s ass off (v.) under laugh, v.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 76: ‘Eat and drink like a loving pig,’ he says, patting the bulge under his parka.
at loving, adj.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 74: The Coast Guard and the pipeliners and them pussy-stripers up in Newf.
at Newf, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 237: The Norski, as Amundsen was referred to in the press.
at Norski, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 6: The Navy sent me up to Kiska during the war and what a pisshole that was.
at pisshole, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 69: We have shot our bolt.
at shoot one’s bolt (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 188: Place is becomin’ Skirt City.
at skirt, n.
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 192: He flipped again, and he got hold of some booze and some medicine, and he just went snaky.
at snaky, adj.2
[US] J. Langone Life at the Bottom 201: He’s standin’ naked as a hen in a meat house, freezin’ his stones off.
at stone, n.1
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